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Psychology Quotes by Aldous Huxley

52 Psychology quotes by Aldous Huxley

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Aldous Huxley notes that a strong, original mind often turns toward solitary contemplation, almost like a private religion. He warns that excessive consistency can harm the mind as much as the body, and that a fanatic hides a secret doubt by over‑compensating. The quotes suggest that understanding the self requires looking beyond ordinary beliefs.

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Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body.

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Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

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To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

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Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

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Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them.

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The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education.

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“One reads to tickle and amuse one’s mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.”

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“Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers; and only someone with a mind like Shelley's can write…

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After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to…

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A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I…

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If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a…

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The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and…

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“Words - I wonder if you can realize how much I love them. You are too much preoccupied with mere things and…

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I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you…

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“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a…

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“Books and loud noises, flowers and electric shocks — already in the infant mind these couples were compromisingly linked; and after two…

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“There are times, and this is one of them, when the world seems purposefully beautiful, when it is as though some mind…

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“In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with…

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A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The…

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A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its…

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“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on…

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Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in…

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A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is…

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“O brave new world, O brave new world...' In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tune. They had mocked…

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The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world…

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“Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the…

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“This view of the next valley is a view, at one remove, of your own mind, of everybody's mind as it exists…

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“To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system.…

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Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt…

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“Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is…

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“He was digging in his garden--digging, too, in his own mind, laboriously turning up the substance of his thought. Death--and he drove…

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“There are quiet places also in the mind,” he said, meditatively. “But we build bandstand and factories on them. Deliberately—to put a…

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“He began to talk a lot of incomprehensible and dangerous nonsense. Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind;…

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“How have individuals been affected by the technological advances of recent years? Here is the answer to this question given by a…

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“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet…

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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The…

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.”

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Hitler's vast propaganda successes were accomplished with little more than the radio and loudspeaker, and without TV and tape and video recording…

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All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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“What you need is a gramme of soma.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.”

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain…

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